Sack

.—To sack a city, is when it is taken by
storm, and left to the ravages and indiscriminate
plundering of the soldiery, and when the fair sex
is not treated with that decency and decorum which
is ever due to it. At the recapture of Toulon by
the French, an English lady of virtue, very cooolly
went up to a French officer, and as composedly
asked him, “Pray, Sir, can you tell me when the
ravishing begins?”